NILA NÚÑEZ URGELL Born in Barcelona in 1993. Graduated in Audiovisual Media from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2015. There, she showed particular interest in editing, cinematography and documentary film. At the same time, she studied Cinematography at the ECIB (Barcelona Film School), where she was DoP on the short film SAFARI NIGHT. As a final project for the university she filmed her first short documentary film called BARCELONA ON STAGE, which was awarded at the Bibliocurts Festival in Barcelona and at ArqFest in Mataró. Interested in audio-visual anthropology and in analysing and interpreting reality through the camera and editing, she decided to start a Master in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary at the Universitat Autonoma de Catalunya. There, she directed and filmed LO QUE DIRÁN. Nowadays she keeps growing as an audio-visual professional studying Video Editing at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, always with the eye put in the documentary cinema.
Director’s statement Teenage years: A magic and complex stage of our lives. Full of laughter, love, first times, hormones, willingness to learn, to grow and to disobey. Full of doubts, fears, and insecurities: the need to know who you are and what you want, to move away from home, to feel lost, to search for an identity. A universal stage that everybody faces. It doesn’t matter when, how or where or without anything to do with ethnicities, cultures or religions. Ahlam and Aisha are going through this, while in addition being two Muslim teenagers in a country, city and culture totally different from their families. Their life is the crossbreed of two parallel realities: their high school, including the streets of Barcelona, surrounded by teachers and friends; and their homes, with their families deeply rooted in Islam. Even if both realities seem to be at the odds, the girls feel they are connected and shaping both of their personalities. This too is also what happens with their friendship. The two girls are different, in their thinking and in their way of being, nevertheless, they are best friends. Some Might Say expects to create the same interconnection between the movie and the viewer. Through the conversation between the girls, pure and true, the spectator starts to empathize and understand the characters, by making an exercise of listening and acceptance. The documentary doesn’t pretend to indoctrinate or impose an opinion on any issue. It tries to encourage a reflection and a match between different realities, ways, and mind-sets: let the viewer find out the things which unite us. In the end, Some Might Say is a non-fiction film about contradictions and opposites led by friendship, love and comprehension.
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